City of Ottawa auditor general Nathalie Gougeon presented her report to the police services board on Thursday.
Nathalie Gougeon told the Ottawa Police Services Board on Thursday after formally presenting them with her audit report. “Why did this happen? How can we prevent it from happening again?”Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter.
In the case of the OPS audit, the scope included only the police force’s collaboration with the city. What led to the narrow focus — “a very difficult decision,” Gougeon said Thursday — was that her office’s audit work, undertaken at the request of the police services board, was playing out alongside other convoy post-mortems and they didn’t want to duplicate efforts at taxpayers’ expense.
But Gougeon could resume some version of the “deep dive” into the police response that her office initially planned. It depends on what questions are left unanswered by other reports, including a major one due later this month. The Public Order Emergency Commission has conducted a sweeping review into the federal government’s response to the three-week vehicular demonstration, including use of the Emergencies Act to bring about its breakup.Gougeon said her office would review the final POEC report, to be tabled by Feb. 20. Also on her radar is the conclusion of work by the
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